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Stop the presses! The Russians have come up with a pretty snazzy way to deal with that oil spill : nuke it all! Why waste time freaking out when you can unleash the power of mass-to-energy conversion , and let Mr. Atom clean up the mess in no time at all? The silly thing is, while I’m half-joking, the Russians are legitimately serious about the proposal. Turns out they used to do such a thing—nuke oil spills—back in the days of the Soviet Union.